How to create a project (video tutorial)
Use Cases
Useful links
Groups vs Tags
What is Target URL?
What is a Project?
SE Ranking’s Projects are dedicated workspaces for tracking one website and all its SEO data. This includes keyword rankings, competitors, audit results, and more. Each project is tied to a specific domain or URL.
Follow the step-by-step video tutorial below to learn how to create a project:
Use Cases
International Website
Option 1: Create a project under the main domain (recommended), include subdomains, and add search engines by language and region.
Option 2: Use language- or region-specific paths like /fr, /es, or /de if your website targets different audiences using URL paths. In this case, select the domain/path structure when creating the project.
Use both Google Desktop and Mobile search engines to get full visibility across devices.
E-commerce
E-commerce websites often have paths like /shop, /support, or /blog to segment different areas such as stores, help centers, or content sections.
Start with keyword tracking:
- Identify your most relevant keywords — not every keyword needs to be tracked.
- Group keywords by product categories, brands, seasonal collections, or bestsellers using Groups.
- Tag keywords by search intent — informational (blog), transactional (product), or navigational (brand).
- Track performance across relevant search engines like Google and Bing, on both Desktop and Mobile.
- Create separate projects for different countries or regions. For example,
it.comcan be tracked as a separate project with Italian keywords and localized search settings.
Competitor Benchmarking
Add 3 to 5 competitors to your project to monitor their keyword strategy, landing pages, and backlinks.
You can also create separate projects for tracking key landing pages, like example.com/voucher, to analyze the visibility of specific promotions or campaigns.
Useful links
- How to set search engines and regions
- How to group and sort keywords in projects
- How to check rankings for exact URLs
- How to check directory rankings
- How to check subdomain rankings
Groups vs Tags
What's the difference?
| Groups = folders | Tags = labels |
|---|---|
|
Used to organize keywords by category or topic. Examples: Online Bookstore: Group: fiction, non-fiction,
children’s booksFitness App: Group: workouts, nutrition,
sleep trackingNote: One keyword belongs to only one group. |
Used to describe a keyword’s purpose or intent. Examples: Online Bookstore: Keyword: buy mystery novelsTags: transactional, productFitness App: Keyword: how to improve sleepTags: informational, blogNote: One keyword can have multiple tags. |
What is Target URL?
The Target URL is the page you intend to rank for a keyword.
Example:
Keyword: book Rome city tour
Target URL: travelagency.com/rome-tours
This helps in detecting if the wrong page is ranking (i.e., homepage instead of product page) and in avoiding keyword cannibalization (when multiple pages compete for the same keyword).
Keyword Lists per Search Engine
You can track a different set of keywords on each search engine. Each keyword is linked to the search engines you choose, so the same phrase can be tracked on one engine and not another. The keyword text itself is shared: a single keyword record can't hold different wording for Google and Bing — to phrase something differently for another engine, add it as a separate keyword and link it only to that engine.
Keywords can be assigned to:
- Google Desktop
- Google Mobile
- YouTube
- Bing
- Yahoo!
This gives you the most accurate results by device and region.